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applegrove's JournalScary. Is this the start of business microtargeting people's social media behaviour online?
If so they have flipped the concept of goodwill on its' ass.
https://twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1066373460203642880?s=20
And this:
Bloomberg: Beijing To Start 'Rating' Every Citizen By 2020
By Nicole Belle
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/bloomberg-beijing-start-rating-every/amp?__twitter_impression=true
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China’s plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points program by 2021 that assigns personalized ratings for each resident.
The capital city will pool data from several departments to reward and punish some 22 million citizens based on their actions and reputations by the end of 2020, according to a plan posted on the Beijing municipal government’s website on Monday. Those with better so-called social credit will get “green channel” benefits while those who violate laws will find life more difficult.
The Beijing project will improve blacklist systems so that those deemed untrustworthy will be “unable to move even a single step,” according to the government’s plan. Xinhua reported on the proposal Tuesday, while the report posted on the municipal government’s website is dated July 18.
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What should we call it? "Badwill" instead of goodwill?
Me too. I hope he isn't tapping down Trump now to create a precedent for
not allowing democrats to complain when the right wing Supreme Court gets going on enforced monogamy or whatever they have planned.
I guess they are not happy with Roberts pick as a Supreme Court Judge.
https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/1065732926640410624?s=20Yes. There is a danger when too many in a group have been breathing rarified
air for too long. It is downright henious not to have some grounding in real peoples. Look at what has happened to the Republican Party as an example. Sotomeyor has a great story and a decency missing in people like Scalia and his ilk. May Kavanaugh learn from it.
Read the book. The author got conned. Psychopaths make the false
narrative (s) they spin so compelling to the people who believe in them feel compelled to act in some manner. Things feel realer than real. They feel like you must do something. They appeal to our vanity and this author is no exception. He starts by taking the advice of a cult as to going to the most difficult of diagnoses with no background and gets conned. Scientology is against psychology and psychiatry because scientology is run by psychopaths who manipulate people into handing over their money. Of course they don't want mentally robust and self actualized people running around the world. Those are all people who will not join scientology. They need a hook and if it is not vanity is could be some hidden wound (or want to be hidden)....something to hold their followers captive. And knowing yourself through psychology/psychiatry does away with the hooks. Plus the psychopathic leaders are always vulnerable to being diagnosed by the psychopathy checklist themselves. Cults are not led by other people than psychopaths most often. I read another writer on psychopathy who quoted a policeman saying to a psychopath something to the effect of "Don't try that stuff on me. Psychopathy only works on smart people and I'm not smart". It is true that to fall into their sway you need to absorb all the lines, narratives and play acting the psychopath spoon feeds you to change the structure of your mind heart gut and emotions. At least it goes faster. The author is obviously a smart, funny guy but unschooled in the techniques a psychopath would use to fool him. For sure there are problems with psychiatry and psychology. They are the most complex of sciences. This author is obviously a bright guy but he's got no background. Psychopaths rely on people not being wise to the science. A check list is just a tool. Like anything else. It clarifies. It diagnoses. It gets refined over time as the science gets better. Letting scientology direct you to one example of one person being 'misdiagnosed' by the checklist across the ocean is like asking Putin to help you find out about Gods by visiting with Kim Jong Un when you know nothing about authoritarianism. Of course Un is going to convince you he is a god. And he can prove it. It is nonsensical.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8565585/The-Psychopath-Test-A-Journey-through-the-Madness-Industry-by-Jon-Ronson-review.html
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It is difficult to imagine anyone writing a more quixotic book, unless they were actually Miguel de Cervantes, yet where Ronson sees giants the reader will often struggle to discern a windmill. Again and again, his books return to the moment we lost faith in the idea of madness as liberation. I suspect Ronson is a romantic, still cherishing the hope that lunacy may be a glorious way out from a life of routine.
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Me, personally, I hope Van Jones finds a way into the minds, hearts and guts of
Trump voters that he can then share. I don't like the idea of 39% of americans being MAGA cultists. I know some can't be saved. I don't want to save the others for their own good, though that will be a nice side effect, I want to wake them up for the good of the country.
Yes. Most dyslexics get out of their own ego and think of the big picture
every so often. They are known for it. Not Trump.
I think that it being put out that maybe the US will expel Gulen back to Turkey
to appease Erdogan after the killing of a Washington Post reporter in the Saudi Embassy in Turkey is just a ruse. The public airing is the ruse. It is so abhorrent that putting it out there and then not doing it will cause massive relief. And perhaps satisfy Americans and others around the world that they don't want to hold the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia guilty anymore if it were not to means sending another landed immigrant to his torture and death. Quite brilliant little set up in our minds. We will not want punishment for a crime if it means a similar crime will then occur.
It may be as simple as dyslexics are herd avoiding. So they can think
outside of groupthink back when we all lived in little villages. And they could tear down human created fictions if their village went to crazy in cooperating over human constructed 'reality. Maybe that is the simple reason why Trump hates being in an alliance. Why he wants to tear everything down. It is pure instinct. Only the world and the West was and is working well for people. We believe in people centered banking and trade and publuc education and public healthcare as well as helping the poor and helping people get ahead. But it was not working in the USA republicans, desperately unhappy with their lot, gutted workers incomes as some billionaires in the US did not think they had enough money. They also financially traumatized the public with risky bank regulations. So it stopped working for the little guy. And the West was not working well for misogynists and racists and the intolerant either. Trump is just going on dyslexic instinct to put the brakes on human cooperation in the West. To benefit his coalition of the dispicable few and the many snowed. He's not fixing anything or saving anybody. It is very typical of dyslexics to think of the big picture over hours, days, weeks. To get out of their own ego and think big picture. Not Trump. He is missing that.
Melania fight still on. I wonder if Bolton has chased anyone down the hall.
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1062515114866339841?s=20If I had to guess what the issue is I would say Bolton and his aide were trying to control Melania and her influence and thoughts and it has not gone well. Why else would you try to control the seating plan on an airplane unless it was about controlling who sits beside who, who influences POTUS. That would be my complete guess. Melania might just have lines she will not let Trump cross on foreign policy, or they suspect it. 'It' being that Melania might be a feeling human being. Edit to add: and they leaked Melania's hotel bill from Egypt? Okay they are definitely trying to lower Melania's self esteem, or that of her team, so they can control her or those around her. Typical of palace intrigue types: protectors only of themselves, their place and the spun 'realities' of those they deem should have power (true right wing believers), imposing said 'realities' on everyone with a sledge hammer (following the 'reality' with such intense passion that they are delusional), kiss up and kick down, annihilate those not your friends (no live and let live) especially if the relationship winds up or ends, smart with details (hired for their understanding of complexity), no capacity for the big picture which requires periods of time of ego-lessness (and the GOP are counting on that), impose impose impose the order of her 'boses' to maintain/improve her position within, etc.. IMHO
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